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Stent-valves for valve replacement and associated methods and systems for surgery

  • US 10,314,701 B2
  • Filed: 06/23/2017
  • Issued: 06/11/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cardiac stent-valve device comprising:

  • a stent component having a central axis, and an annular groove;

    a valve component housed in a section of the stent component;

    the stent component and the valve component being configured in a collapsed configuration for delivery at an implantation site, and in a self-expanding expanded configuration after delivery to the implantation site;

    wherein;

    the stent component comprises a lattice structure including a plurality of cells and a plurality of commissural posts, and a plurality of individual attachment elements projecting integrally from a stent extremity at a first axial end of the stent component,a commissure between two valve leaflets is attached to a respective commissural post,each attachment element is configured for removable attachment to a complimentary structure of a delivery system and corresponds to at least a portion of a respective commissural post,the annular groove is present in the expanded configuration, arranged towards a second axial end opposite the first axial end, and defined by an annular indentation of the stent component which correspondingly presents an indented interior surface of the stent component, andthe valve component extends axially beyond the annular groove towards the attachment elements.

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